NOAA also changed the names of the text files by zones instead of by city. It takes a second to find the right zone area you need to get the right text file(ie nyz010.txt is for BUFFALO NY).

Problem.
When I redirect the weather.agi script to new location it works, but the .txt file downloaded has two lines now to read per forcast; the second line with no preceding "." is skipped, festival only reads the first line with preceding "." and moves on to the next forecast.

Can this be fixed to read the two lines in festival?

Im using trixbox v2.0

matt

Just a little more advanced tips on your ‘Setting Up Asterisk Extensions to Call Your Friends’

If you want to be able to dial in to your AAH and call your friends from a PSTN phone, or even have your mobile/home and your friends etc as an extension so inbound callers can even dial that extension and get your mobile etc directly, or your receptionist can forward a call to your mobile while your out and about. In extensions_custom.conf just add [ext-local-custom]. So in the above example:

[ext-local-custom]
exten => 6279,1,Dial(SIP/6783214567@bv) ; Mary’s Cell Phone
exten => 5646,1,Dial(SIP/6783336767@bv) ; John’s Office

and then in extension_additional.conf in ext-local (where your normal internal extensions are) make sure:
include => ext-local-custom
is in the list of your local extensions.

If you try and add the extensions in ext-local instead of the custom, next time you use the GUI to edit/add an extension it will remove them, so putting ‘ext-local-custom’ will keep them from being removed.

Now your extensions can be called from either internal or external connections.

Another tip is the downside to the above is that if your SIP/IAX2 connection that you?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢re dialling out by is down, then your call won’t get through. So to add further redundancy to that, simply create another extension using the same info, but different provider and then create a ring roup and hunt between those 2 extensions.

[WM: Great tips, Jeff. Thanks for sharing. Learn something every day.]

Thanks in advance,

Roman

Secondly I would like to mention I had the same Issue Derek Ross mentioned with the "No Directory Entry Matched Your Search". After a few hours of net searching (to no avail), I dug into the extensions.conf and went looking for the problem. Turns out in the [app-directory] there are two extensions setup # and *411. In my case *411 would work and # would produce the error. There is a typo in one of the lines for the # extension where a letter o has appeared.
Change:
exten => #,2,AGI(directory,${DIR-CONTEXT},ext-local,${DIRECTORY:0:1}${DIRECTORY_OPTS}o)

to:
exten => #,2,AGI(directory,${DIR-CONTEXT},ext-local,${DIRECTORY:0:1}${DIRECTORY_OPTS})


That solved the issue for me right quick, and I am sure others will find it helpful.

Lastly I would like to close with a question. After setting up the weather service to get my local weather (again thank you for this wonderful resource), I have been trying to change the default voice being used to by the tts engine reading the weather, with no success. Have you attempted this project yet? If so how well did it go?

Again, great job!

any ideas, or have seen this before? With AAH 1.5 i did not have this problem…

thanks!

When I manually make modification to the conf files, then make modification using the GUI, after I submit the changes on the GUI my manual modifications are overwritten. Have you ever expeienced this? Do you know how I can correct this so it will no longer happen?

Luckily for me, I had fresh backups which allowed me to restore my manual changes… whewww.

I am really get into this system, thanks to your wonderful tutorials. I look forward to seeing more to come in the future. I am working on the custom inbound route configurations and I would be happy to provide this information to you if needed. I feel it can help many current and future asterisk users!

[WM: The Asterisk Management Panel (AMP) takes complete control of some of the .conf files and rebuilds them every time you make a change in AMP based upon the settings it stores in a MySQL database. This includes extensions.conf and extensions_additional.conf and maybe some others. If you make changes in those files, they’ll get wiped out for sure unless you put your entries directly in the MySQL tables, and even that is a crap shoot so I wouldn’t go there if I were you.]

Using AAH, can you set up several DID’s that then route to unique schedules and if the time of the call is during normal hours, it would then forward to a Queue? As an example, if the telephone numbers are 0123456789 and 9876543210 and the call comes into 0123456789 it would direct it to schedule A. Then if the time of the call being placed is during "open" hours, it would direct to Queue 1. On the other hand, if 9876543210 is called, it would then forward to schedule B. If the time of the call being placed is during "open" hours, it would direct to Queue 2. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

[WM: Yes on all counts. We are going to do a couple future articles on call routing and queues. So stay tuned!]

[WM: Here was the syntax for SIP provider calls: http://asterisk.dyndns.org/callme.php?number=sip/bv/4045551212. And here’s the syntax for IAX calls: http://asterisk.dyndns.org/callme.php?number=iax2/goiax/4045551212. Remember, there is no IAX version 1 in Asterisk any more, just IAX2.]

Is it becuase Asterisk treats extension numbers more than 6 digits differently?

The reason I ask this because I have many 7-digit extensions and it messes up the display in FOP panel: The 7-digit extensions appear under "Trunks" – mixed with other trunks, and some incorrectly.

I would very much appreciate if you can demystify the numbering of extensions and how they "interfere" with other numbers such as IVRs and US 7- and 10- numbers. Thanks.

[WM: Asterisk treats extensions the way you tell it to treat them, but … it obviously complicates your dial plan (not to mention your SPA-3000 which also has a separate dial plan) when local extension numbers start bumping into regular phone numbers. Area codes in the U.S. start at about 200 so using extensions which begin with 1200 or higher just means you have to be extra careful in designing your dial plan(s). FOP is a separate application and probably isn’t intelligent enough to distinguish a trunk from an extension if they have the same number of digits so that is another pretty good reason to keep the lengths of extensions to under six digits. It’s also easier on users to remember extensions and dial 3 or 4 digits rather than 5 or more. Hope this helps.]

[WM: I haven’t been to Vancouver in a while but, if you have a broadband connection, the setups we’ve been discussing in these articles will work just fine. If you buy either an IP phone or the SP-3000 which we’ll address in Part IV, then Voxilla gives you a coupon for free BroadVoice setup and a free month of service on any of their plans.]

[WM: We’re going to cover this in the IVR and AutoAttendant segment, Part V. But the short answer is yes, you can play music on hold while a call is being forwarded. Take a look at the SPA-3000 section of Part III for sample code for extension 99 which plays music on hold while a call is transferred if you’re in a hurry to try it.]

Thanks.